A novel view on the physical origin of E8

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/33/332001MaRDI QIDQ3522767zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matej Pavšič

Publication date 4 September 2008

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4365

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We consider a straightforward extension of the 4-dimensional spacetime $M_4$ to the space of extended events associated with strings/branes, corresponding to points, lines, areas, 3-volumes, and 4-volumes in $M_4$. All those objects can be elegantly represented by the Clifford numbers $Xequiv{x}^{A}gamm{a}_{A}equiv{x}^{a_1\mathrm{...}{a}_r}gamm{a}_{a_1\mathrm{...}{a}_r},r=0,1,2,3,4$. This leads to the concept of the so-called Clifford space $calC$, a 16-dimensional manifold whose tangent space at every point is the Clifford algebra $calCell(1,3)$. The latter space besides an algebra is also a vector space whose elements can be rotated into each other in two ways: (i) either by the action of the rotation matrices of SO(8,8) on the components $x^A$ or (ii) by the left and right action of the Clifford numbers $R=$exp$[alph{a}^{A}ga{m}_A]$ and $S=$exp$$ on $X$. In the latter case, one does not recover all possible rotations of the group SO(8,8). This discrepancy between the transformations (i) and (ii) suggests that one should replace the tangent space $calCell(1,3)$ with a vector space $V_{8,8}$ whose basis elements are generators of the Clifford algebra $calCell(8,8)$, which contains the Lie algebra of the exceptional group E${}_8$ as a subspace. E${}_8$ thus arises from the fact that, just as in the spacetime $M_4$ there are $r$-volumes generated by the tangent vectors of the spacetime, there are $R$-volumes, $R=0,1,2,3,\mathrm{...},16$, in the Clifford space $calC$, generated by the tangent vectors of $calC$.

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